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Since in 2017 unlikes reascent years the best fight the best it is much easier to determin the champion of the world, the 1.

Joshua
Usyk
Gvozdyk
?
GGG
Lara
Spence
Crawford
Garcia
Lomachenko
Santa Cruz
Rigondeaux
Yamanaka
Inoue
?
?
?

Santa Cruz isn't the best... Russell would knock him out easily within 8 rounds.

This brings in more clarity of who should fight who. Everybody always talks about loma going up to face garcia etc, i think loma is at his perfect division & should stay. Santa cruz is tall, could add some muscles and challenge the p4p king. After kovalev knocks out ward, a action packed should happen, gvozdyk seems to be the best lh. He arguably has more punching power than kovalev, is taller with longer reach, younger and techniquly superior.

HW: Joshua
CW: Usyk
LHW: Ward/Kovalev (tough call)
SMW: DeGale
MW: Golovkin/Jacobs (some had Jacobs winning)
LMW: Lara
WW: Thurman/Brook/Pacquiao (tough call)
LWW: Crawford
LW: Linares (Mikey wouldn't be an incorrect answer either, though)
SFW: Lomachenko
FW: Santa Cruz/Russell Jr. (tough call)
SBW: Rigondeaux (if someone says Magdaleno, though, I wouldn't argue because of Rigondeaux's inactivity)
BW: Yamanaka
SFW: Inoue
FW: Ioka
LFW: Lopez
MW: Meyothin

Kalan wrote:Santa Cruz isn't the best... Russell would knock him out easily within 8 rounds.

He has a better overall resume than GRJ, and GRJ's only real win is over Jhonny Gonzalez. Santa Cruz has Frampton, Mares, and Mijares on his resume.

Mexi-Box wrote:HW: Joshua
CW: Usyk
LHW: Ward/Kovalev (tough call)
SMW: DeGale
MW: Golovkin/Jacobs (some had Jacobs winning)
LMW: Lara
WW: Thurman/Brook/Pacquiao (tough call)
LWW: Crawford
LW: Linares (Mikey wouldn't be an incorrect answer either, though)
SFW: Lomachenko
FW: Santa Cruz/Russell Jr. (tough call)
SBW: Rigondeaux (if someone says Magdaleno, though, I wouldn't argue because of Rigondeaux's inactivity)
BW: Yamanaka
SFW: Inoue
FW: Ioka
LFW: Lopez
MW: Meyothin

Good list.

Yeah unlike kovalev/ward ggg/jacobs was realy close. I thought jacobs won, rewatched the fight and g winning by 1 round. Both were tremendous and there should definitly be a rematch after the big bang which is ggg vs canelo.